And as long as you keep some internal logic.
Even magic needs rules. They do not need to be explicitly explained to the reader, but they need to be there and apply to everyone.
While I agree with you in spirit, there are now adults who have been watching TikTok brainrot since their teens and have an attention span of five seconds, and adults who grew up on MTL slop.
You could start by not starting a new paragraph with every sentence. For example, your short description of Adrian Caelis Ravenshade stretches over multiple paragraphs. Then you use several more paragraphs to describe a simple action from him. Those should have been two paragraphs in total...
If the drive itself is still good, you can turn it into an external drive. Even if you don't need an external drive, it could allow you to access the data there, assuming it was not encrypted, and you can get a basic enclosure fairly cheap.
Either there's more, or something just made you notice it more. I have not noticed any difference in my area myself. But vampires and goths both have been popular for a long time.
As for your feeds, maybe the algorithm picked up a pattern somewhere that you are more likely to click on those topics?
Best I can guess is our words change his reality.
I mean, ostensibly my first word "cat" appeared one update back again, trying to convince him he's no longer human, so why should he not feast with cats on the human arm?
Sure, go ahead, but it might be best to not go too crazy with it without a good reason. As those above said, you will still want to keep some of the book's identity and not confuse your standing readers too much/not make it too hard for users to find the title again.
For example, there's this...
It's a balance of your goals. Apparently shorter, more frequent chapters help you get readers faster. But if you go too short, around 1k words or less, your chapters will suffer, because they will be too short to still be interesting, which might hinder reader retention. Not enough room in one...